This nerdtacular snapshot (Starbuck and Starbuck in Starbucks) is making the rounds again today. For original context see comments thread here. H/T Sang Ngo.
Month: May 2011
It's hard to get more Serious than Alan Simpson. Why, he's won trophies for his game face alone and he bowls overhand.
The previous post was too depressing to share over here, but I figure there are enough teachers reading this make cross-posting it worthwhile. FORMER STUDENT: Hey, Scott! SEK: Howdy, FS..
What office hours can be like (a painfully humorous diversion from grading for academic readers and contributors). H/T to Stacie Goddard and Tom Burke. via
Noam is taking some deserved hits for this, as well as some that aren't quite deserved. I think it's best to view Chomsky as of limited utility as a theorist of.
Given that Bazelon's exceptional reporting on the subject convinced me that the prosecutions that followed in the wake of Phoebe Prince's suicide ranged from "dubious" to "outrageous," it's almost certainly.
So far I am a tad disappointed by HBO's rendition of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones series. Granted, I've only just watched the pilot so far, but what's the deal with the re-imagined Catelyn Stark? First they ditch Jennifer Ehle. Then they gut...
Material like this post from GSGF on the Foreign Policy site. Not because I agree with Courtney Messerschmidt's take on OBL... nope. And not at all convinced she speaks "for.
Rebel progress in Libya: In the besieged western city of Misurata hundreds of rebels broke through one of the front lines late on Sunday, and by Monday afternoon were consolidating.
The CUNY executive committee unanimously voted to restore the honorary award initially denied to Tony Kushner. Good. Now the question becomes why the Pataki bagman who smeared Kushner was in that position in the first place.
Shorter WaPo: "Kathleen Sebelius should be ashamed of herself for arguing that a plan designed to reduce the money seniors have available for medical care will reduce the money seniors.
I'm very much enjoying this new tradition of Krugman shredding whatever nonsense Bobo offers up in his previous column, and today's implicit response to Brooks's lament about how the dumb.